Bed-frame construction



Jan. 16, 1923.

M. Hmm y 1,442,779. 'BED FRAME CONSTRUCTION.

FILED MAY 1l 19221 Patented `Fan. 16, 1923i.i

HTED. STABS i Ltd-2,77

vMICHAEL HERING, or WHITE PLAINs, nsw YORK.

BED-FRAME CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed May 11,

To AZZ trito/m t may concer/1t.'

Be .it known that I, MICHAEL HnniNo, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident ol"v 1White Plains, in the county ot Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bed-Frame Construction, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. Y

This invention relates to a bed trame con' struction, and has for an object the provision ot means whereby the rails and posts ot' beds can be easily, positively, firmly and pivotally connected together.

Another object resides in the provision ot means whereby if the bed frame is to be moved out ot a room through a narrow opening sinh as a door it can be very easily collapsed without taking the posts and',V rails apart to move the bed out, thus eliminating` the laborous operation of taking the bed trame construction down and then putting it up again.

A further' object resides in the details ot construction whereby the joints between the posts and the rails are made particularly strong and tight, eliminating the possibility oi' any relativo movement between the parts.

A still tin-ther object resides in the particniar construction and arrangement ot parts whichare hereinafter described and claimed and shown in the accompanyii'ig` drawings.

rflic invention is illustrated in the drawings, ot' which- Figure i. is a perspective view of a portion ot the bed 'trame immediately adjacent the joint fasteningl a post to one ot the side rails.

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the rail and the post separated from each other.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line SP3 ot Fig. l.

Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 4 4 olf Fig. 5.

The torni of the invention shown in the drawings is a preferred i'orm, although it understood that modifications in the construction and arrangement of the parts and in the character of the materials used may 1922. Serial No. 560,131.

the rail and the post and Valso permits the bed frame to be distorted or collapsed so that the coniiguration of the trame can be altered to move it through narrow openings such as doors without taking the rails apart from the head and foot frames.

As Vshown in the drawings, the application comprises a bedpost l with one face o1" which plates 2 and 3 are associated in any suitable manner., These plates may be fastened tothe bed post in any desired manner, either permanently or in a detachable manner, and they may be provided with laterally extending portions 2a and 2l which extend across the full width of the bedpost and are ot a depth substantially equal to the combined depth of the plates 2 and 3. rlhe plates 2 and 3 with their lateral eXtension are preferably welded to the bedpost and thereby are so firmly anchored to the post that any play between the two is eliminated.. Both` ot the plates are provided at opposite ends with pin-receiving channel members Li. The members a on one end of the plates are alined and spaced slightly ay irt. The members 4 on the opposite ends ot the plates are alined but spaced further apart so to receive therebetween and in alinenient therewith a third pin-receiving channel member 5 which is associated with a bedr-ail 6. The particular form of the in vention shown involves the connection be tween the channel member 5 and the plate 'T attached to the side of the bedrail. As shown, the bedrail is in the it'orm of an l.- shaped channel bar having a flat surface S and a vertical side portion 9 against which the plate 7 is disposed. The opposite corner ot the end of the bedrail on which the plate .7 is disposed is provided with a pin-receiving aperture lO.

The plates 2 and 3 connected with the post l are shown as being separate plates and spaced slightly apart to form a slot or passageway ll therebetween. However. these plates may be joined as one and the space or passageway ll may be :Formed by slitting the single plate. This passageway li is adapted to receive the end edge 12 ot the bedrail to permit the alinement ot' the aperture l() with the members L'l which are spaced slightl)Y apart, and also to permit the alinenient oi the pin-receiving member 5 with the other pair of pin-receiving members i. On the plate T adjacent the ends ot the member 5 are bearing edges i3 and 14. These bearing edges, as shown in Fig. 1, bear against the face of'plates 2 and 3 when the member 5 is alined. Vhen the rail and the post are in proper alinement,

pins 15 are inserted, as shown in Fig. 1, to

hold the parts together. The fact that the rail is detachably connectedrto the post at two points permits it to be pivotally moved around over one of these points by merely removingnthe pin from the other point. Also, the locking engagement at two points prevents any lateral horizontal play between the post and the rail. Furthermore, the bearing surfaces 13 and 14 prevent any vertical play between the rail and post.

Asshown in Fig. 4 in dotted lines, the rails can be moved pivotallyl with respect to .the posts in either one or the other: direction. Consequently, if the pins are removed from the four corner joints of a plate bed frame, the head frame and the foot frame can be moved with respect to each other so as to collapse the frame and cause it to occupy much less space than when completely assembled. This collapsing will permit the bed to be moved through the door without entirely separating the rails from the posts.

Therefore, it'will be observed that I have provided a simple, eficient, strong bed frame construction by means of which the rails and posts of a bed frame can be quickly and easily connected or disconnected,.and one in which a variation of the relation of the parts can be quickly made by `removing four pins to permit the bed to occupy much less space than when in its normal position.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a bed frame construction, a bedpost, a plurality of sets of spaced pin-receiving channel members thereon, a bedrail, and a pin-receiving channel member connected thereto and adapted to be alined with a pair of similar members on the post for pivotal movement, said bedrail having an aperture on the end thereof to be alined between another set of pin-receiving members on the post, the engagement of a piniwith the receiving menibers and the aperture locking the rail to the post and at vthe same time permitting pivotal movement of the rail around the post at this point.

2. In a bed frame construction, a bedrail, a plate fastened to the side at the end thereof, a pin-receiving channel member on said plate, and bearing portions on the plate disposed at the ends of the channel member to bear against a port-ion of the bedpost and brace the same, said rail having a pin receiving aperture in the end thereof to receive a pin and lock the rail to the post.

MICHAEL HERING. 

